[wxruby-users] libgstreamer, slackware => libgconf.......???

[Alex Fenton]

rvnues at tesco.net wrote:
> I dunno whether I am the only sole on linux planet wihout gconf or libgstreamer.... 
You're certainly not the only one. It's not installed by default on 
Ubuntu, although straightforward with the package manager.
>  by accidentally stumbling on your discussion about modularisation on http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wxruby-development/2007-June/000790.html , the ideas in here might provide a long-term solution to the problems I encountered. 
>   
I got a proof of concept working last night making one trivial class 
(ToggleButton) a separately loaded compiled feature. It's definitely 
do-able, but would require a substantial restructure which I'm not sure 
we're up for doing right now.

> Mario Steele wrote:
>   
>> As for portability, I will talk with alex, to see if we can possibly put up a specialized version of wxruby for linux, that does not have these dependencies, as to reduce dependencies that are not needed.
I think this is a real concern. On the one hand, we want a consistent 
set of features across the binaries for different platforms. One the 
other, we want easy installation everywhere. It might be worth looking 
again at wxruby-lite as an interim which would be smaller and have no 
external dependencies anywhere.

alex